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Add a menu command to a toolbar? [message #756266]

Fri, 11 November 2011 12:51

Eclipse User

Is there any way to add an EXISTING MENU COMMAND to an EXISTING TOOLBAR in Eclipse 3.7?

All the examples either show you how to hide/unhide existing toolbar items (which is not what I am asking) or are programming examples for people writing Eclipse plugins (which is also not what I am asking.)

It seems like it should be possible to add an existing MENU item (like, say, "Organize Imports" to an existing toolbar. Is the only way to do this by writing a custom toolbar????

Re: Add a menu command to a toolbar? [message #756820 is a reply to message #756266]

Tue, 15 November 2011 04:40

Eclipse User

If you want to do it by customizing the menu as a user I guess this will not work. If you want to provide a custom plugin you might be searching for something like this:

plugin.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?eclipse version="3.4"?>
<plugin>
   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.menus">
      <menuContribution
            allPopups="false"
            locationURI="toolbar:org.eclipse.ui.workbench.file?after=additions">
         <command
               commandId="org.eclipse.pde.ui.searchTargetRepositories"
               style="push">
         </command>
      </menuContribution>
   </extension>

</plugin>

This plugin will add the searchTargetRepositories command to the existing file toolbar.

Re: Add a menu command to a toolbar? [message #757004 is a reply to message #756820]

Tue, 15 November 2011 17:46

Eclipse User

Thanks. It seems odd that there's no way to do this from inside the app, but I guess that made sense to someone.

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